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Myal
Language: en
Pages: 119
Authors: Erna Brodber
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-08 - Publisher: Waveland Press

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Jamaican-born novelist and sociologist Erna Brodber describes Myal as “an exploration of the links between the way of life forged by the people of two points
Afro-Caribbean Religions
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-25 - Publisher: Temple University Press

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Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popul
Jamaican Folk Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Arvilla Payne-Jackson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

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This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaica. Payne-Jackson and Alleyne analyse the historical and li
Three Eyes for the Journey
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Dianne M. Stewart
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the w
Africa in America
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Michael Mullin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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In an attempt to lay bare the historical and cultural roots of modern African American societies in the South and the British West Indies, Michael Mullin gives